It’s back to Martin’s holiday reading this week, and a couple of men from the Golden Age – first up is one of England’s greatest ever fast bowlers
CRICKET BOOKS
A quirky one this week – a book that was greeted favourably by others has had the Mac treatment
Martin has been on holiday, and took with him a number of volumes in the ACS “Lives in Cricket” series – here is the second of five reviews
Martin has been on holiday, and took with him a number of volumes in the ACS “Lives in Cricket” series – here is the first of five reviews
Archie’s verdict on this one is not quite the same as Martin’s, but there’s not much difference, and the book remains rated as outstanding
Surely a classic example of a poor quality ghosted 1950s attempt to cash in on a star player’s reputation? The answer to that one is, it would seem, a resounding no
Only a handful of individual Test matches have justified a full length book being written about them. This was most certainly one of them
No doubt suspicious of Martin’s glowing review of this one Archie has been checking up on him, but has found nothing with which to disagree
This week Martin takes a look into the back catalogue of the ACS Lives in Cricket series which, as ever, seems to have proved a worthwhile exercise
Two reviews from Archie this week, one is Ken Farnes’ autobiography, and the second a biography of the Essex and England paceman published 60 years after his death